Variations on the quote have been attributed to a lot of different people including Winston Churchill, Wendell L. Willkie, George Bernard Shaw, Aristide Briand, William Casey, Woodrow Wilson, Otto Von Bismarck, Georges Clemenceau, Benjamin Disraeli.....
I think it's usually attributed to Churchhill or George Bernard Shaw, although their variation was:
"If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart.
If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain."
Benjamin Disraeli I think was the around before most of these people, so he was probably the original, and he said:
"A man who is not a liberal at 16 has no heart;
a man who is not a conservative at 60 has no head."
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Originally posted by DavePlays
Who was it that said that a young man who isn't a liberal has no heart -
And an old man who's not a conservative has no brains?
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